2007 Draft Discussion

Padres · Post by **Padres** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:16 am

The rules state:

1. Annual Rookie Drafts
A. Prior to the start of each season a universal new player draft will be held. The order will be determined by the records of the teams from the previous season with the worst team picking first. Ties will be broken by Pythagorean winning percentage, head to head record and then finally record in the last ten days of the season.

Someone who understands that should crunch the numbers. It has been years (no make that decades) since I have had to apply the Py theory to anything ...

Also, wouldn't it make sense to go with the first tie breaker being the best record in the last ten days as a means to discourage tanking?

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:03 am

Mets wrote:The rules state:

1. Annual Rookie Drafts
A. Prior to the start of each season a universal new player draft will be held. The order will be determined by the records of the teams from the previous season with the worst team picking first. Ties will be broken by Pythagorean winning percentage, head to head record and then finally record in the last ten days of the season.

Someone who understands that should crunch the numbers. It has been years (no make that decades) since I have had to apply the Py theory to anything ...

Also, wouldn't it make sense to go with the first tie breaker being the best record in the last ten days as a means to discourage tanking?

That's an interesting idea.

Dodgers · Post by **Dodgers** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:36 am

Interesting idea, but it only represents the last 10 days, while Pyth represents the whole season, which IMO is more important when considering which team is weaker. Especially considering a bad team who plays a bad team late will likely have a higher L10 than a bad team who plays a good team late.

For waivers, we use Win %, Pyth %, then L10. It would probably be good to change this to be the same for both waivers and draft order.

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:38 pm

The sim will give us Pyth%

Cardinals · Post by **Cardinals** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:11 pm

why is this in exco

Dodgers · Post by **Dodgers** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:28 pm

I'll try to figure out why.

Dodgers · Post by **Dodgers** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:21 am

It's in ExCo because of the name Jim chose for the topic...should be fixed shortly.

Dodgers · Post by **Dodgers** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:29 am

Should be fixed now.

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:35 am

We should be able to tell in the next six hours to four weeks.

Dodgers · Post by **Dodgers** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:39 am

Oh great Brett...hurry up would ya!

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:14 pm

If someone could just help me out with a really good reason to pick one or the other, or if Houston would just trade me #4, this agony could be over.

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:58 pm

FWIW, I picked and it hasn't yet posted on a board. It does show up on the draft results though. Also, I got this error when I made the choice:

Could not draft player (1-4-3)

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1062 Duplicate entry '13-5' for key 1

UPDATE ibc_rookie_draft_queue SET priority = priority - 1 WHERE user_id = 13 AND priority > 1

Line : 96
File : draft.php

Dodgers · Post by **Dodgers** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:39 pm

Problem appears to be fixed.

IBC

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